October 2026 sees 82 high-impact CVEs prioritised, 13% fewer than September
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Recorded Future's Insikt Group identified 82 high-impact vulnerabilities for October 2026, 52 with a Very Critical risk score, down 13% from 94 in September. Of these, 36 were surfaced through CISA's KEV catalogue, 33 from open sources and 13 only from honeypot data, across products from 51 vendors, with Citrix and Microsoft together accounting for about 15%. Insikt also published Nuclei detection templates for the two PHP2Shell flaws and for CVE-2026-87902 and CVE-2026-86124.
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What to do
- Prioritise patching the listed CVEs, starting with those on CISA's KEV catalogue.
- Check whether your estate runs Citrix, Microsoft, Fortinet, Ivanti, Palo Alto or Cisco products covered in the report.
- Verify the validity of any public proof-of-concept exploit before testing it.
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